“In fact, if you were to give England a vote about whether ­Scotland should ‘sod off’, that would be a terrifying 24 hours. You know what English people are like? They are so ­isolationist, they’d be like, ‘If they want to leave, f*** ’em. Leave’.

“At the moment ­Scotland is like, you know when someone’s leaving a party and they want everyone to notice and stop them leaving?

“And they are at the door going, ‘I’ve called my taxi. I’m ­definitely about to leave the party’ and everyone else is like, ‘No one cares Andrew. Just f*** off’. That’s how I describe the ­situation.”

Russell added: “It would make more sense if Scotland wanted to not be part of Europe and wanted to be a cool little Norway or ­Switzerland type thing with loads of oil money and everyone wanted to go live there. I don’t get the, ‘Right, we’re going to be ­independent now … so we can not be ­independent’.

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“It is slightly weird to want to not be dictated to by London but be dictated to by Brussels. I guess that’s how much the Scottish ­Parliament hates London.

“The reality is Scotland wouldn’t have a currency because you are not going to be able to join Europe straight away. There’s no way spiteful crone May will let you keep the pound. She’ll just send you guys out clad in a kilt into the howling wind.”

Busy Russell’s about to embark on a mini tour – performing in ­Glenrothes for the That’s Fife festival on April 6, then Oban on April 8 and Ayr on April 9.